Comments on: How to Transfer All MySQL Databases From Old to New Server

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:51:15 +0000

@Jibun,

Yes, `mysqldump` requires the MySQL service to be running. Stopping the service closes the socket, preventing the dump. Keep MySQL running while taking the backup.

By: Jibun no Kage

Jibun no Kage — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:59:29 +0000

Are you stopping the very service you're trying to use? The moment I stop the service and attempt to perform a dump, I receive the following error:

mysqldump: Got error: 2002: "Can't connect to local server through socket '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)" when trying to connect

Clearly, something in your steps isn't correct. If I restart the service, the dump works fine. What could be the issue?

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:42:58 +0000

In reply to Sagrat.

Restoring a MariaDB database from a mysql dump file won’t work for system versioned tables and I might fail if using a table type that MySQL doesn’t support such as Aria.

By: Faiz Qiam

Faiz Qiam — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 21:23:01 +0000

Hello,

I want to have a complete copy of my database which is on a linux server on my own Windows computer would you send me a link to the step-by-step copy the process to not face any problems.

Thank you!

By: Sagrat

Sagrat — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:08:04 +0000

There is a mistake in this article. To restore a database from a dump generated with mysqldump the correct syntax is :

mysql -u USER-p < databasename_bkup.sql

The command is this article " mysql -u [user] -p newdatabase < database_name.sql" works only if the database already exists.